Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fa7721f58b84166…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 15:59:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3cf3333487e82a6a82dd2408db941b8f SHA-1: 59ec51409ae792f6c9d35807bc4b9f6fe8ab28f3 SHA-256: 8fa7721f58b84166608ec12b584a8c5be788f4039dd27273a99097325472987e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified as a link farm and redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that points to a redirector, likely intended for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=captain+america+comics+1+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.keithrobertson.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/mavumamurokil_jevala_nikemav_gomunofibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kaseymartinez.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969525/ac69572df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ldsstrangite.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437930/fca331c2b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.candlerock.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384424/5554214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.capitalcitycupsc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380163/xaligoganefupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/1534434062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9521/8594/files/uremic_syndrome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9761/9621/files/metallurgical_thermodynamics_ahindra_ghosh_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9254/8515/files/medical_fitness_certificate_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0732/6882/files/31865473607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2309/8279/files/jujitosekulisibedope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6775/3116/files/digotigojemajodonidali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0101/1614/files/koteros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2338/5247/files/business_plan_for_startup_business_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7495/3120/files/kawurivugivegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4135/7977/files/42819348993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0200/3609/files/traditional_cinderella_story.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5216/3481/files/90578443541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1859/8038/files/jiniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000163eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163EB 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 476d6838b1074d54ac5cb17457c5937a9c20487cf7d9899b505a8bb3bd4c88b0
font_01_sfnt_off0001759e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1759E 10388 bytes
SHA-256: d91b59dc8d007206ffa85c3dc6133973cdd581cac7da41a34aec638ef9d36c4b